Recherche fondamentale et pratiques de conservation : un dialogue indispensable

Abstract

It is fashionable, nowadays, to talk about conservation biology, whoever you are, researcher or manager of a protected area. Everybody knows that conservation is a true science, with its specialized journals, its scientific societies and its textbooks. However, the coupling of words conservation biology holds two ambiguities: (1) it focusses on science, but a science of action - a crisis discipline as written by Michael Soule; (2) conservation biology is not just biology. Taking into account these two ambiguities leads to a true revolution in the usual thinking about science. In the field of conservation, such an upheaval asks for a dialogue between scientists and wildlife managers for both parts: research obtains more relevance and conservation more efficiency.